Mary Kay Letourneau’s former schoolboy lover said yesterday he’s “really excited to see” the cradle-robbing teacher now that she’s been released from prison, and hopes “she’s still the same person that I fell in love with.”

A still-smitten Vili Fualaau, now 21, said he desperately longs to reunite with the Seattle teacher temptress, with whom he carried on a torrid affair when he was 12, but hasn’t seen in about seven years.

“I’ve been waiting a long time for this to happen – for her to come out,” said Fualaau, who has two daughters with Letourneau.

“And now that she is out . . . I’m really excited to see her,” he told the “Today” show. “I want to see . . . who

she is and if she’s still the same person that I fell in love with. And I want to see if she feels the same way for me,” he added.

Fualaau also said Letourneau’s incarceration was a “test to see if we still love each other after seven years.”

And he expressed hope that he’ll know “by the end of this month” if they can rekindle their love because they “left on awkward terms.”

Letourneau, 42, was release from jail Wednesday after having served 7 ½ years in prison.

As part of her release, Letourneau has been ordered not to have any contact with her former flame, but Fualaau has filed a motion to overturn the ruling.

Prosecutors are reviewing Fualaau’s request. As for dating, Fualaau said no woman can compare to Letourneau. “Every girl or woman that I’ve gone out with, I’ve always compared Mary to them,” he said.

“I wanted to bond with them on many different levels. And I couldn’t do that with any other girl, because I constantly thought about Mary.”

Letourneau, who has registered as a sex offender as ordered by the court, is currently living in the posh Seattle home of a couple she knows, Robert and Marvel Eldridge. And while she’s only been living with her